Tweet!

Hi everyone, following from yesterday’s post of my first card using Tracy Evans’ latest Christmas stamps, I had another play yesterday afternoon. This card was inspired by one of Tracy’s sample cards from her product launch in July which she reposted on her FB page yesterday. It reminded me that as well as the new baubles, holly and berries etc. I also have Tracy’s first snippet stencil “Tweet” which unfathomably I have never used … until now! I made a few small changes to the detail of Tracy’s layout, background stamping, sentiment, and one of the colours … however it is still very much based on her beautiful design.

I started with the focal bird, blending Warm Breeze and Avocado Versafine Clair through the stencil to make my bird outline.  (Tracy used Bali Blue rather than Warm Breeze but I don’t have that yet … though it is now on order!! ) I stamped the holly at the top of the card in Avocado, followed by berries in 1st and 2nd generation Warm Breeze, and stamped some more holly inside the masked bird outline. I then stamped the baubles … I had been ruminating how best to stamp these silhouette stamps to get a shaded effect, and for this first attempt I stamped in VFC topped with Zig pens to add definition and blending, white Stabilo pencil and some Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on one side of each bauble. I then added some grey Zig pen shading to the baubles and “grounding” for the bird, and hand drew bauble strings with a silver Gelly roll pen. I then stamped random background words in 2nd generation Morning Mist VFC, and the sentiment in Twilight. Finally I stamped a teeny bird in the corner holding a berry in its beak, added white Posca highlights and spatters, then matted  onto a frame and card blank.

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE22 Christmas Wishes, TE 21 Holly & Berries, TE23 Winter Delights, TE10 Quirky Birds; sentiment - Visible Image Poinsettia Grunge;

Media: Versafine Clair (Warm Breeze, Avocado, Twilight, Portobello); Kuretake Zig Clean Colour watercolour pens; Stabilo pencil (white); Gelly roll pen (silver); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Tracy Evans Snippet Stencil SS1 - Tweet.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #115 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

ABC Christmas - S is for Stencils (2nd entry)

Allsorts #800 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Crafty Catz #679 - Use a Stencil

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (October) - Use a Stencil (2nd entry)

Festive Friday (October) - Christmas

Merry Little Christmas #58 - Anything Christmas Goes (4th entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Christmas/Winter Card (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Things With Wings (2nd entry)

Sparkles Christmas #165 - Use the word “Christmas” (2nd entry) - WINNER

Triple B (October) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

Word Art Wednesday #667/668 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

That’s all from me for today., though I can’t seem to stop playing with my new Christmas stamps so I may well be back soon! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,